The annual award for most peculiarly-named books has announced a typically strange set of finalists
Will it make the cut? Pie-ography, a contender for this year's Diagram prize
It may sound a little flaky, but a deep-dish study of life and pies has claimed a place on the Diagram prize shortlist for the oddest book title of the year. Jo Packham examines how pies can capture the story of a life in Pie-ography: Where Pie Meets Biography, exploring "the biography of a woman's life told through the ingredients that create a slice – a taste – of her life in a pie".
With recipes for "Always Changing Brownie Pretzel Pie" and "Cookie Dough Frisbee Pie", Pie-ography has yet to win any cooking awards, but is one of six strangely-titled tomes in the running for this year's Diagram award. Ian Punnett's How to Pray When You're Pissed at God sees the author provide "insight on feeling anger and resentment toward God", while Duncan Brown's Are Trout South African? "uses discussions on trout, their history, the literature about them, scientific work on what is considered 'indigenous' or 'alien', as well as the author's moving personal stories of fishing to provide an engaging and accessible exploration of a contested physical and cultural terrain".
Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City – which prize organiser the Bookseller has installed as this year's favourite – is a celebration of "these unsung (and illegal) heroes, featuring full-color photos", while the prize shortlist is rounded out by two books focusing on toilet humour: How to Poo on a Date, and The Origin of Feces, a punny title for a serious exploration of why waste matters. The author, says the book's publisher, "takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone's lives".
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With recipes for "Always Changing Brownie Pretzel Pie" and "Cookie Dough Frisbee Pie", Pie-ography has yet to win any cooking awards, but is one of six strangely-titled tomes in the running for this year's Diagram award. Ian Punnett's How to Pray When You're Pissed at God sees the author provide "insight on feeling anger and resentment toward God", while Duncan Brown's Are Trout South African? "uses discussions on trout, their history, the literature about them, scientific work on what is considered 'indigenous' or 'alien', as well as the author's moving personal stories of fishing to provide an engaging and accessible exploration of a contested physical and cultural terrain".
Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City – which prize organiser the Bookseller has installed as this year's favourite – is a celebration of "these unsung (and illegal) heroes, featuring full-color photos", while the prize shortlist is rounded out by two books focusing on toilet humour: How to Poo on a Date, and The Origin of Feces, a punny title for a serious exploration of why waste matters. The author, says the book's publisher, "takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone's lives".
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